NIXON TAPES: No Washington Post Reporters Allowed!

Ron Ziegler
December 11, 1972 7:54PM
034-050
White House Telephone

President Richard Nixon talks with his press secretary Ron Ziegler about the Washington Post. Nixon, who had earlier banned Washington Post reporters from the White House, had heard that reporters from that paper had attended a televised Christmas event with the First Lady, Pat Nixon, earlier that day. Nixon threatens to fire Ziegler if Post reporters or photographers are allowed in the White House again.

For several months by this point, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (later authors of All the President's Men and The Final Days) had been writing about the Watergate break-in scandal, which was still in its nascent stage at the time.

(Photo: President Richard Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, and White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler.)

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[cyclonearmageddon]

@steffidude Something made infinitely easier by his being a lying criminal.

[lpd830]

Oh I can tell you Nixon could play Hardball

[Brrrniss]

@x170063 They weren't biased. Nixon was angry at the Post because Woodward and Bernstein were digging up everything that he was trying to keep buried. They were doing their job and they were doing it well. What they deserved was the Pulitzer that they got.

[Lennon4life1968]

the babbling of a paranoid fool.

[steffidude]

Amen Mr. Nixon! They were out to get him from day one.

[Derby14]

Damn, that wouldn't be easy to hear coming from the president...

[x170063]

Nixon had many reasons to hate the press, some were good and others were not. I think the POST deserved some of the anger he directed at them due to their bias.

[bjr43]

Man, Nixon hated the press didn't he?